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Advanced Micro Devices on Monday said that three distributors of wholesale computer components would offer servers and mainboards by Supermicro designed for AMD64 microprocessors. Supermicro, who earlier only produced Intel-based servers and components, will sell its AMD64-powered products under A+ trademark.

“We strive to build solutions based on leading innovative and reliable technology, and by adding AMD64 technology into our portfolio of offerings, we are able to significantly broaden the choices available to our customers,” said Wally Liaw, vice president, International Sales, Supermicro.

The latest AMD Opteron processor-based motherboards and barebones servers from Supermicro are now available from ASI Corp., Ingram Micro and Tech Data, according to AMD.

Earlier this year Supermicro already announced intention to produce mainboards and servers for AMD Opteron processors. But the company only aimed OEMs with such products and it was not expected that the manufacturer had plans to sell them via channels.

Supermicro’s AMD64 product portfolio includes tower/pedestal servers (4U) as well as 1U and 2U rackmount servers for uni-processor, dual-processor and multi-processors applications. 

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SuperMicro making motherboards for the Athlon is a little surprising, Serverworks making a chipset for them is even more surprising.

AMD platforms have been so weak I never used them for important applications where I need a server up all the time (I had much better reliability with Intel or Supermicro motherboards, Intel or Serverworks chipsets). Now, with a Serverworks chipset and Supermicro motherboard, everything has changed. AMD processors have not been unreliable since the 486DX2 80/40 which had cache problems, but the supporting chipsets were never as good as those supporting Intel's processors. Serverworks changes all that, and Supermicro making motherboards that support their chipset is a huge change. Both are extremely reliable solutions. Much better than junk makers like Asus and inferior chipsets from VIA and Nvidia. Serverworks and Supermicro are grade A. What a boost to the Opteron. I think it will go a long way to eliminate the remaining fears people have about the AMD platform. At this point, they should be perceived as reliable as Intel. Very big news.
[Posted by: TA152H  | Date: 10/10/05 08:24:03 PM]

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